What Fish Is It?

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BazGoldenclaw

Feeder Fish
Oct 6, 2009
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Long Island, NY
Hello. I'm rather new to the forum, as one of the workers at my local pet store guided me here after being unable to identify one of my fish. I had purchased it quite a while back, at least half a year now, and I cannot for the life of me recall what name it was sold under, nor can I seem to find an image of it.
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It's the large silver one on the left, with the red-tipped fins. It is about 6 to 7 inches long now, and if I can recall correctly, was rather small, perhaps an inch in length, when I first acquired it.
 
Welcome to MFK, your fish looks like a redfinned cigar shark, Leptobarbus hoevenii.
 
Nice fish, welcome to MFK.
 
Welcome to mfk!

Definatly a Cigar Shark, lovely looking fish (I miss mine:cry:), but he'll want to grow to 18"+ and will need plenty of space. Works better in a school but it looks as if you have some tinfoil barbs in the background there too which should work ok with him. Again, they'll get to 14" and need lots of space to swim.

What size tank and equipment do you have now? You might be looking at needing a 180gal+ for those boys but they do look amazing fully grown.
 
Thank you all for the input! I've been considering setting up either a larger tank or even a backyard pond, but that'll be some time in the making. Again, thanks for identifying the fish.
 
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